WHEN ethics and profits collide you have the kind of headlines that keep companies like Tiger Brands in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Tiger Brands owns Enterprise Foods which is currently embroiled in the listeriosis outbreak which has killed 180 people. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Sunday named two Tiger Brands Enterprise factories as having produced contaminated products.

In 2007, Tiger Brands was fined R99m for stealing from the poor in the bread price-fixing scandal.

In 2015, The Pork Packers’ Abattoir in eastern Johannesburg, which supplies meat to Enterprise Foods was slammed for gassing pigs with carbon dioxide before slaughtering them. At the time, it was claimed that alternative methods were presented to Tiger Brands, which the company rejected on the basis that they would be more costly.

In 2016, it recalled some of its cooking sauces and rice products after tests found traces of potentially carcinogenic ingredients. It recalled 17 000 packs of its “Tastic Simply Delicious” line of instant rice and curry sauces.

Tiger Brands is Africa’s largest food manufacturer. It has denied any links between the deaths from listeriosis to its products but have you had any loud calls for an enquiry from our commercial media? The answer is in who controls the food and their advertisers.

Who controls your food? We ran this article in July last year!

South Africa’s banking cartel and control of food

Many South Africans are not aware that the banking cartel of 5 big banks which control 91% of banking also control the food value chain thus the land and our health [3].

Major food producers and manufacturers controlled by banks and other financial service providers:

The banks and other financial services managed to capture South Africa’s food production after the dawn of deregulation when a policy called GEAR was adopted in 1996 so those who claim that White Mononopoly Capital doesn’t exist need to explain to the public how the brief picture drawn above can be explained.

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It is incredible Raphael. Everything goes through the banks – they own everything. And this is the danger of privatisation – that basic needs are all commercialised – from water to education to housing. Someone told me the other day that a bus she was using has gone triple the price since the Democratic Alliance took over – they are all for privatising everything.